A bowl-out (sometimes termed a bowl-off) was used as a tiebreaker in various forms of limited overs cricket to decide a match that would otherwise end in a tie.
[1] If each team has hit the same number of wickets after the first five bowlers per side, the bowling continues and is decided by sudden death.
[2] A bowl-out was first used in the NatWest Trophy in June 1991 in a match between Derbyshire and Minor County side Hertfordshire at Bishops Stortford.
John Carr missed with both of his, but Bill Merry struck middle stump with his second attempt to win the match.
The first international bowl-out in a Twenty20 match took place on 16 February 2006, when New Zealand beat West Indies 3-0 in Auckland.